[VESTI] April 24 is the 425th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, losses, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
02:30 . Zaporozhye region. Explosions thundered in Zaporozhye, an air raid alert was announced in the city and the region.
07:00 . Chernihiv region. From the very morning, the Russians, probably from self-propelled guns, hit the Gremyach settlement 13 times.
Kharkov region. During the day, the Russians attacked the areas of border and front-line settlements of Kharkov, Chuguevsky and Kupyansky districts.
Donetsk region. During the day, two people died in Bakhmut, two more were injured in the region .
Nikolaevkskaya area. Ochakov suffered from artillery shelling. There are no wounded.
08:00 . Crimea. Explosions were heard in Sevastopol . so-called. the "governor" said that the city was attacked by surface drones. According to him, one drone was destroyed, and the second allegedly exploded on its own in the outer roadstead.
Dnipropetrovsk region. During the night, the Russians bombarded Nikopol with heavy artillery . People were not hurt.
09:00 . Kherson region. During the day, the Russians shelled the Kherson region 83 times, firing 412 shells from heavy artillery, UAVs and aviation . Kherson was shelled three times. There are hits in the residential areas of the settlements of the region; the territory and building of the educational institution of the Belozersky settlement community. Two people were killed and six were injured.
10:00 a.m. Zaporozhye region. Nuts, Gulyaipole, Rivnopolye and 17 other settlements suffered from shelling from various types of weapons . The Russians carried out 94 shelling, one rocket, four air strikes, three from MLRS and 10 using UAVs.
Sumy region. In the morning, the Russians carried out mortar shelling of the Belopolskaya (one arrival) and Velikopisarevskaya (nine arrivals) communities.
11:00 am . Crimea. The Russians are building fortifications in order to finally launder money, said Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the Joint Coordinating Press Center of the Southern Defense Forces: activity, realizing its senselessness, can turn certain capitals in their favor .
12:00 . Zaporozhye region. According to the General Staff, the Russians are trying to export Ukrainian grain from Berdyansk on cargo ships.
Donetsk region. Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky visited the Bakhmut direction . I traveled along the entire line of collision, I was in the units that hold the Bakhmut front. Syrsky said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine “are not only performing defensive actions in Bakhmut, but are also actively counterattacking,” and this is what makes it possible to restrain the Russian offensive for several months and gain time.
13:00 . Ukraine is negotiating the exchange of prisoners with Russia in the "all for all" format and is already "approaching this," said Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry.
14:00 . Kharkov region. Border guards shot down a Russian drone.
15:00 . Zhitomir. Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas is visiting Ukraine. She met with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Estonia is focusing on the restoration of a number of destroyed facilities in the Zhytomyr region and has become the first state to start "practical reconstruction" of the Ukrainian region.
16:00 . Crimea. The nighttime explosions in Sevastopol were commented by the Russian Defense Ministry: " Kyiv tried to attack the Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol with unmanned speedboats, all of them were destroyed ."
17:27 . The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that air defense systems cannot cover the entire territory of Ukraine.
18:00 . The Ukrainian troops withdrew from the last held areas in the center of Bakhmut and retreated west from the railroad tracks. This is reported by the journalist of the German newspaper Bild Julian Repke. He added that the RF Armed Forces continue the offensive.
18:33 . In the near future, Russian troops will make another attempt to storm Ugledar. This was stated by the head of the joint press center of the defense forces of the Tauride direction Alexei Dmitrashkovsky. According to him, the RF Armed Forces are "dismantling" the houses so that the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot hold the defense in the city.
18:59 . Many MiG-29 fighters, which Poland and Slovakia handed over to Ukraine, are in non-flying condition and are being dismantled for spare parts. The Economist writes about it.
19:22 . One division of the "Patriot" air defense system is already on combat duty in Ukraine. This was stated by the representative of the command of the Air Force Ignat.
19:58 . Yevgeny Prigozhin said that Wagner PMC would no longer take prisoners.
"We will kill all those who are on the battlefield," he said.
20:20 . As of 20:00 on April 24, Russian troops fired three more times at the border areas of the Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
The operational command "North" reports this on Telegram. From 14:40 to 15:20, 15 strikes were recorded, probably from an 82-millimeter mortar, in the area of the settlement of Novovasilievka.
20:45 . Because of the information from the ISW that the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered the left bank of the Kherson region, the Russians intensified shelling of this territory, - Gumenyuk.
21:08 . Ukraine was not going to hit Moscow: the Office of the President of Ukraine responded to the publication of The Washington Post.
21:37 . During the day, the RF Armed Forces delivered 6 missile and 47 air strikes, carried out 25 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the critical infrastructure of settlements.
22:00 . In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian army continues to conduct offensive operations. Heavy fighting continues for the city of Bakhmut. In addition, during the day, Russian troops conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the direction of the settlements of Novomarkovo and Khromovoye.
22:29 . Ukraine needs Russia's permission to join NATO - Deputy Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament.